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[House  of  Representatives,  ]Sro.  18.] 

HOUSE — Sept.  3,  1862.  Read  first  and  second  times,  post- 
poned, made  special  order  after  the  Bill  for  Increasing  the  Army,  and 
oidered  to  be  printed. 

[By  Mr.  Pugs,  from  Military  Committee.] 


A.    BILL 

To  be  entitled  ''An  Act  to  Exempt  Certain  Persons  from  Ser- 
vice in  the  Provisional  Army  of  the  Confederate  States. 

1  Section  1.    The  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of 

2  America  do  mart.    That  certain  persons,  as  hereinafter 
provided,  are  exempted   from  service  in    the  Provisional 

'  \  Army  of  the  Confederate  States. 

fi  I.     Persons    unfit    for  military  service   by   reason    of 

6  mental  or  physical   incapacity,   under   rules  to  be  pre- 

7  scribed  by  the  Secretary  of  War. 

8  IT.    The  Vice  President  and  members  of  both  Houses 

9  of  Congress  ;    and  members  of  the  Legislatures  of  the 

10  several  StateB,  and  the  officers  of  Congress  and  the  Le- 

11  gislatures. 

12  III.    Officers,   Judicial  and   Executive,  of  the  Confed- 


1 3  erate  and   State   Governments,  who   may  be   elected  or 

14  appointed  according  to  law  :  Provided,    That  in  counties. 

15  parishes  or  districts  divided  into  heats  or  civil  districts. 

16  having  more  than  one  justice  of  the  peace,  only  the  senior 

17  justice    thereof  shall  be    exempted  ;    and    in    counties. 

1 8  parishes  or  districts   not  so  divided,  only   such  justices 

19  shall  be  exempt  as  may  be  specially  elected  or  appointed 

20  to  hold  courts  of  record  ;  and  not  exempting  constables, 

21  nor  the  deputies  of  clerks  or  of  sheriffs,  nor  postmasters, 

22  nor  the  clerks  or  deputies  of  postmasters,  nor  assistant 

23  clerks  or  messengers  in  the  several  Executive  Depart- 

24  ments    of  the   Confederate    Government,   except  those 

25  appointed  or  approved  by  the  heads  of  those  Depart- 

26  ments  ;  and  Provost  Marshals  are  hereby  prohibited  from 

27  employing  any  clerk,  or  other  assistant,  or  agent  in  their 

28  offices,  who  is  subject  to  military  service,  and  has  not  been 

29  discharged  therefrom,  and  no   person  subject  to  military 
HO  service  shall  be  employed  as  clerk,  agent  or  assistant  by 

31  quartermasters  or  commissaries,  or  assistant  quartern  Las- 

32  ters  or  commissaries,  except  such  as  may  be  appointed 

33  by  the  quartermaster  or  commissary  general. 

34  TV.   Persons   actually  and  necessarily  engaged    in  car- 


35  rying  the  mail,  the  number  on  any  post  route  to  be  deter- 

36  mined  by  the  Post  Master  General. 

37  V.  Ferrymen  on  post  routes,  not  exceeding  one  at  any 

38  locality. 

39  VI.  Pilots   and   persons  engaged   in   the   marine  ser- 

10  vice. 

11  VII.  The  presidents,  superintendents,  conductors,  the 
VI  treasurer,  the  chief  clerk,  engineers,  managers  and  me- 
13  chanics,  in  the  active  service  and  employment  of  any 
II  railroad  company,    not    to   embrace  laborers,  porters  or 

45  messengers. 

46  VIII.  The  president,  general  superintendent  and  ope- 
17  rators  of  telegraph  companies,  and  the  local  superinten- 

48  dem  and  operators  of  said   companies,    the  latter  not  to 

49  exceed  one  in  number  at  any  locality   having  less  than 

50  live  thousand  population,   and  not  to  exceed  two  at  any 

51  place   but  that  of  the  Seat  of  Government  of  the  Con- 

52  federate  States. 

53  IX.  The   president,    superintendents,    captains,    chief 

54  clerks,  engineers  and  mechanics  of  all  companies  active- 

55  ly  engaged  in   river  and  canal  navigation,  and  all  cap- 


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56  tains  of  boats  in   actual   employment,  ami  the  engin< 

57  thereon. 

58  X.  The  Public  Printers,  and  all  foremen  and  journey- 

59  men  printers  actually  employed  in  the  public  printing  of 

60  the  Confederate   and  State   governments,  or  in  printing 

61  newspapers. 

6l!  XJ.   Such  physicians,  and   such    .shoe-makers  and  tan- 

63  ners,  engaged  in  the  business  of  manufacturing  shoo  or 

64.  leather  for  sale,  and  such   harness  makers,  saddlers,  and 

65  millers,  actually  employed   in  their  trades,  as  the  Sccre-» 

66  tary  of    War  may  consider    necessary  to   their  communi- 

67  ties  or  the  public  service. 

68  XII.  Superintendents  of  public  hospitals  and   Lunatic 
■69  asylums  and  the  regular   nurses  and   attendants  therein, 

70  and  the  teachers  employed  in  the  institutions  tor  the  deal' 

71  and  dumb. 

72  XIII.  In  each  apothecary  store   now  established  and 

73  doing  business,  one  apothecary  or  practical  druggist. 

74  XIV.  Superintendents  and  operators  in  wool  and  cot- 

75  ton  factories,  who  may  be  exempted  by  the  Secretary  of 

76  War. 

77  VX.  Professors  and  teachers  in  State  military  schools 


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78  or   institutes,  and  the   cadets  therein   at  the  date  of  this 

79  act,    and    all  presidents   and   professors  of  colleges   and 

80  academies,   and  all   teachers  having  as   many  as   twenty 

81  scholars   in  regular   attendance  upon  their  schools  ;    and 

82  all  professors  and  teachers  in  theological  seminaries  and 

83  the  students  now   therein  as  candidates   for  the  ministry; 

84  ministers  of  the  gospel  in  the   regular  discharge  of  their 

85  ministerial  duties. 

XI)  XVI.    AJ1  engaged  in  working  iron  mines,  furnaces  ami 

87  founderies   and  rolling  mills  ;  and  all  persons  engaged  in 

88  the  production  or  manufacture  of  salt,  lead,  copper,  sul- 
80  pher,  saltpetre  or  gunpowder,  under  authority  from    the 

90  Governors  of  their  respective  States,  or  the  Secretary  of 

91  War,  and  not  to  include  laborers,  messengers  or  wagoners. 

92  XVII.    Artizans   and  employees   in    government  work 

93  shops,  armories,  founderies  or  furnaces. 

9  1  XVI 11.   One    overseer   on   each  plantation   cultivated 

95  exclusively  by  negro  labor  and  owned  by  any  person  in 

90  the  civil  or  military  service  of  the  Confederate  or  State 

97  Governments,   or  any  minor,  or  widow,   or  unmarried 

98  woman,  or  person  not  of  sound  mind  :    Provided,  That 

99  on  plantations  owned  by  the  same   person,  and  not  five 


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i(i(>  miles  apart,  only  one  r  shall   be  thus  exempted  i 

101  And  provided,  further,  That  the  owner  of  auj  suchplan- 

102  lation,  his  or  her  agent  or  representative  shall  firs<  pay 

103  into  the  treasury   of  the  State  in   which  said  plantation 

104  may  be  located,  a  sum  equal  to  five  dollars  tor  each  hand 
L05  over  Bixteen   and  under   forty-five  years  of  age*  and  file 

106  therewith  his  affidavit  that  it  is  a  true  return  of  the  hands 

107  between   such  ages   employed  on  said  plantation:    and 

108  where  the  overseer  on  such  plantation,  being  between  the 

109  ages  of  eighteen  and  thirty-five  years,  has  been  enlisted 

110  oi-  enrolled   in    the  army  since   the  passage  of  the  act, 

111  further  to  provide  for  the  public  defence,  approved  April 

1 12  10,  1802,  and  said  plantation  is  at  the  date  of  the  affidavit 

113  aforesaid,  without  an  overseer,  the  owner  thereof,  his  or 

114  her  agent,   or  representative,  may  pay  the   said  sum  and 

115  file  his  affidavit,  stating  the  truth  of  his  said  return,  and 

116  also  that  his  plantation  was  deprived  of  an   overseer  by 

117  enrolment    or    enlistment    as  aforesaid,    thereupon   the 

118  owner   of  any  such  plantation  shall  be  entitled  to  the 

119  Governor's  certificate  of  the  payment  of  said  sum  and  the 

120  filing  of  said  affidavit  in  which  certificate   shall  be  stated 

121  the  name  of  the   overseer   sought  to  be   exempted,    and 


122  upon  the   production   of  said  certificate  to    the  enrolling 

123  officer,   the  overseer   therein   named  shall   be  exempted 

124  from  enrolment,  or  if  already  enrolled  or  enlisted  as  afore- 

125  said   shall,    on  the   production  of  said   certificate   to  the 

126  Secretary   of  War,    or  the   commandant  of  the  camp  of 
L27  instruction,  or  officer  commanding  the  regiment  to  which 

128  said  overseer  may  belong-,  be  discharged  therefrom  by  the 

129  Secretary  of  War,  the  commandant  or  officer  aforesaid, 

130  and  the  Governor  of  each  State  is  hereby  authorised  and 

131  requested  to  distribute   through  the   county,   district   or 

132  parish  authorities  the  sum  thus  paid  into  the  treasury  for 

133  the  benefit  of  the  indigent  families  of  soldiers  from   his 

134  State,  in  the  military  service  of  the  Confederate  States, 

135  and  also  the  indigent  families  of  those  who  have   died  or 

136  been  disabled  in  such  service,  making  said  distribution  as 

137  equally  as  may  be  according  to  the  number  of  such  indi- 

138  gent  families  in  the  several  counties,  districts  or  parishes 

139  of  his  State. 

1  Sec.  2.  All  laws  and  parts  of  laws  heretofore  passed 
'1  by  Congress  upon  the  subject  of  exemptions  from  military 
3  service  are  hereby  repealed, 


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